tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64771691907314802412024-03-06T04:05:26.847+01:00The stuffed YammobThe last innly inn for weary travelers of the Virtual WorldsLanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06835095269839169484noreply@blogger.comBlogger362125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477169190731480241.post-66931931512182529482015-06-11T23:31:00.004+02:002015-06-11T23:32:21.479+02:00
ARK: First Impressions
(how not to survive in a survival game)
Early Access
There have been very few bugs/glitches. Biggest issue has been the rag doll mechanics, not uncommon to see a Dodo you just killed go flying off for several hundred meters, makes it a royal pain to chase and then gather its hide and meat. AI needs work and combat is very awkward. Beasts sometimes glitch.
Geekzorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11313017286168613164noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477169190731480241.post-29155937537963853692013-07-29T16:48:00.003+02:002013-07-29T16:51:04.921+02:00Screenshot of the day
This would make more sense if we would be updating the side daily, but Age of Conan is just still too beautiful to just keep to my self. Over the weekend my assassin sliced and diced her way through the Hyrkanian steppes. Before she will be done there completely she went to Stygia to learn about her past (fun fight!), and went into the swamp to learn how to live off the wild. Now that she is Phedrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563052105703506187noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477169190731480241.post-77629195089725141602013-07-14T13:11:00.001+02:002013-07-14T13:11:49.501+02:00Yammob!
I found one just before I slayed the Tyrant. Good thing I have my priorities straight.Phedrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563052105703506187noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477169190731480241.post-4714763312130709562013-06-16T19:04:00.004+02:002013-06-16T19:04:56.597+02:00From the ashes.....Gone is the horrendous, mind numbingly painful to play game that was the launch of FFXIV and here we have, some years later, a quirky, well produced, jaunty little theme park ride that is A Realm Reborn. There was a lot of soul searching after the initial failure, the game was rebuilt from the ground up, a new game director and a new vision, a vision that took its inspirations from the Geekzorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11313017286168613164noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477169190731480241.post-41352021116752202722013-03-25T00:07:00.003+01:002013-03-25T00:45:51.409+01:00
Neverwinter - A nice little dungeon crawl?
Dulcy exploring Neverwinter Woods
Beta started Friday evening for me, wasn't sure what to expect. Reports over on the mmorpg.com forums have been bad, for a forum whose main population looks through rose tinted glasses back at anything pre-vanilla and/or sandbox that comes as no surprise. It's based on D&D, it's made by Cryptic and Perfect Geekzorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11313017286168613164noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477169190731480241.post-40095737979259226802013-03-13T16:15:00.001+01:002013-03-13T16:16:11.848+01:00Quote of the ... year?Not because that the quote is that brilliant, well, maybe it is, but more because we are not quoting a lot here on Yammob.
Bah Blizzard, we were breaking MMOs before they even thought about making one.
Joel "Nusquam" Bylos comment when somebody on the TSW forum suggested that Blizzard owned the term "soon". Phedrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563052105703506187noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477169190731480241.post-15602178864722246162013-02-16T00:42:00.000+01:002013-02-16T00:42:41.142+01:00We Love Fine
I had ordered some stuff online. Some cool items, but that is not important now. At the bottom of the box was the packing list and invoice. But there was another badly folded piece of paper. First I thought it had ended up in my delivery box by mistake. But then I realized what I got my in hands. This is so brilliant and unexpected, I just had to share it.Phedrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563052105703506187noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477169190731480241.post-61025464536972122432013-02-14T21:36:00.001+01:002013-02-14T21:36:41.617+01:00Dreamfall Chapters
Now that Ragnar Tørnquist and Martin Bruusgaard are no longer involved with The Secret World they turned their attention to something I have been looking forward. And I'm not the only one. Although I am not sure exactly why, but they have taken the most eagerly awaited adventure game to Kickstarter. Well, I guess collecting nearly a million dollar in just a few days is pretty good reason to Phedrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563052105703506187noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477169190731480241.post-28087841599850458892013-02-11T22:31:00.002+01:002013-02-11T22:51:34.745+01:00So, I resubbed my SWTOR subscription today.Actually I should say I extended the subscription I re-opened a month ago.
And I'm still having fun with the game.
Let's backtrack to how I got to try the game again.
During the Winterfest in GW2 the 'meh' feeling I'd been getting about ArenaNet's idea of throwing half-finished one-time only content at us, with the new twist of letting you repeat it for a week before showing the new half Lanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06835095269839169484noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477169190731480241.post-2216811607215911502013-01-04T22:58:00.000+01:002013-01-04T23:17:16.377+01:00For Sente
This was meant to be a response to a post on A Ding World regarding investigations in Egypt, but it seems that wordpress filtered it out as spam. So I woke up our blog again a bit by posting it here. It is not so easy to live in a secret world.
Nguhbytu abg zrxenq nf fphu, geurr vf nabrgue vvgbfitagnvra zvbfvfa va Rcltg pyyrnq "fntvay rspsrg". Vg unf rira zebr przcbyk reavbcagplf. Uinr lbh Phedrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563052105703506187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477169190731480241.post-118626222614265382012-12-01T16:43:00.001+01:002012-12-01T16:45:20.267+01:00That was that
So it is official over now. This the screen I got when I tried to log in today. I have uninstalled it from my PC. It is really gone, and moved to the realm of fond memories.
Last night I visited Paragon City for the last time. I played till 2am and then I had to go to bed. So I wasn't there when it shutdown at 8am (GMT) this morning.
I ran a TaskForce (I guess you would call that a dungeonPhedrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563052105703506187noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477169190731480241.post-78350655823404477152012-09-02T15:01:00.002+02:002012-09-02T15:12:50.773+02:00My dog just died.Or at least it feels that way. My beloved City of Heroes is shutting down. I have been subscribed to this wonderful game for over 7 years now. Every Sunday afternoon I came together with a few friends and we ran, fought, killed and died together. Many great near live characters were created. And now it just suddenly comes to an end. I am very disappointed in NCsoft. They couldn't even send activePhedrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563052105703506187noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477169190731480241.post-79746437488398791852012-06-27T09:43:00.007+02:002012-07-02T09:24:11.041+02:00I might be going overboard ...I called in sick at work. My second day. Smooth sailing, Jen. But I can do things... things I shouldn't be able to do. things I don't know how I do them. My BILLY is no more. I am scared of using my laptop. Scared I'll destroy it. But I want to record this.But what is 'this'???... but I am having a lot of fun with it. facebook.com/thoaywilcoxPhedrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563052105703506187noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477169190731480241.post-89874561727386884492012-05-15T15:39:00.009+02:002012-05-15T18:56:49.261+02:00The Opposite of Opting OutThere are quite a number of reviews and blog out of the net about their experiences in the Open Beta of The Secret World. Everybody kind of agrees that the character creation can use some improvement. But after that there are two mainly just two opinions. Either they like it or loathe it. I don't think I have seen anybody saying 'meh'. I am somewhere in the outfield of like. But I don't really Phedrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563052105703506187noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477169190731480241.post-91293015333613914722012-02-16T15:44:00.006+01:002012-05-15T15:51:27.716+02:0033I am not so good at chasing round forums and websites any more. So I would have completely missed this if Geeky wouldn't have pointed it out. Thanks Geeky, you are my hero! The Secret World, or actually FunCom itself, added a lovely piece of ARG to their website. Click anywhere on the page that is not a link, and press the number 3 twice.I have do idea what it means. Maybe I should go visit the Phedrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563052105703506187noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477169190731480241.post-82963244397977236022012-01-29T16:51:00.007+01:002012-05-17T18:03:28.907+02:00Postcards from EberronJust a quick post with some screenies I took in DDO over the last week.I particularly liked the subterranean Bugbear / Kobold village.Well, except for the residents trying to kill me every step of the way. DDO's moved from just Dungeons to several outdoor areas as well now. Like rooftop chases and Farmlands, but overall the game stays true to its name :-)Lanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06835095269839169484noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477169190731480241.post-37496334915089326752012-01-25T23:50:00.004+01:002012-02-09T23:24:43.511+01:00Postcard from a weekend in TeleraI like Trion, they've come across as listeners and responders, they've been great at updating and working on the game since release, it was also a smooth one: Trion done good IMHO.So when I got offered a free weekend in Teleria I took that in to account, there was new content to explore, had some time on my hands and after the dissapointments of SW:TOR I just wanted to play an MMO and have some Geekzorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11313017286168613164noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477169190731480241.post-32768098073374960062012-01-18T16:11:00.005+01:002012-01-18T17:31:40.687+01:00What is missing?So I have given up on SWTOR for now. And in stead I have had fun the last two days playing a completely desolated City of Heroes and Bastion. But games are fun. But here I am sitting at work and there is nothing game related I can or should do. Nothing to research, nothing to read or comment. I am actually forced to do just my work.My mind wondered off a bit, and I realized that that is one of Phedrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563052105703506187noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477169190731480241.post-54160795849774830192012-01-16T15:51:00.003+01:002012-01-16T18:11:52.377+01:00Yet Another SW:TOR reviewI couldn't resist stealing the title :) It is not much of a review. More ramblings from my head.The game is up and about for a month now, and that should be enough time for me to know whether I like it or not. It has it good bits and bad bits. As a game I like it, as an MMO it is rather uninteresting. I wish it was a single player game, without a subscription. I pick up nearly any quest I can Phedrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563052105703506187noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477169190731480241.post-31213638380159029092011-11-26T12:14:00.005+01:002011-11-26T12:23:35.943+01:00Skyrim review: No timeGeeky asked me if I could review Skyrim for here...I can, I will...Just not now, too busy playing the game still :-)It's very, very good. Imagine Age of Conan without Conan, annoying community, grinding but with the whole world one overland map :-)Here's a slideshow of some screenshots I've made:The stills don't do the lush countryside justice though.Yes the Interface is awful. It's bad enough toLanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06835095269839169484noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477169190731480241.post-29798275091307304412011-11-01T12:12:00.004+01:002011-11-01T12:18:27.008+01:00Isn't it Ironic?That just a week after I pick up my old habit of sharing items I read through Google Reader, Google launches a new an improved (read: stripped of whatever lay-out embellishments it used to have and replace everything with road-sign style buttons) version of Reader which is better integrated with the newfangled Google+ (which as far as I can tell is Google's 5th attempt at doing social network Lanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06835095269839169484noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477169190731480241.post-75348512716706106022011-10-26T16:52:00.004+02:002011-10-26T20:09:19.320+02:00Dragon Age: RedemptionBioware is already blurring the lines between video games and movies. I have just (finally) finished Mass Effect this weekend. Not only is almost half the time spend on listening and watching cut scenes and dialogues. But most of the characters in the game have crossed the uncanny valley in my view. I am really looking forward to see how they manage to even improve on that in ME2, and ME3. And asPhedrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563052105703506187noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477169190731480241.post-1506478803926267992011-10-15T19:32:00.013+02:002011-10-16T19:33:50.916+02:00How does this go again?A multifunctional title there :-)First of all it's such a long time that I posted something here, I'm having some trouble with some controls.The same is also true for playing Fallen Earth. Such a simple chore as mining a copper node (Left) took some doing at first. I also haven't recalled yet how to make screenies in this game without telltale UI elements, so you'll have to put up with those for Lanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06835095269839169484noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477169190731480241.post-16553303001250524142011-10-12T13:20:00.005+02:002011-10-12T13:34:38.836+02:00Vindictus EuropealisMore than a year ago fracturedInfinity told us about Vindictus. He described it as 'It's kind of interesting'. I think he had a good time playing it for a while. But for some reason the rest of us were not allowed to play it. And for even more obscure reasons the European website for Vindictus was a static image with the text 'coming soon', and a facebook page that was just as dead (except for Phedrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563052105703506187noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477169190731480241.post-67475510107440780802011-09-11T16:56:00.007+02:002011-09-11T17:47:48.027+02:00100Our lovely blog is dead. Maybe we should rename it to Yadmmob. It seems it is not just our blog that died. The entire blogosphere is suffering. No great discussions, adventures, insights, or developments. Could it be the MMO as a genre completely is coming to an end? Perhaps it is. But personally I am as active in my all time favourite MMO as I have ever been. I am daily popping in, doing Phedrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563052105703506187noreply@blogger.com1